Changing laws to make it more difficult to sue physicians for medical malpractice may not reduce the amount of "defensive medicine" practiced by physicians, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

Every day, doctors face pressure to choose between practicing defense medicine or trying to lower healthcare costs. Your patient comes in, and even if you think the treatment is 'wait and see,' you ...

Medical malpractice reform has been supported by many experts who argue it lowers healthcare costs by reducing the amount of defensive medicine practiced by physicians, but according to a recent RAND ...

A recent study found when physicians spent more money on patients, their risk of malpractice lawsuits fell, according to Daily Star Albany. 1. Researchers found an overall malpractice rate of 2.8 ...

In this paper we present the costs of defensive medicine in thirty-five clinical specialties to determine whether malpractice liability reforms would greatly reduce health care costs. Defensive ...

Providers spanning the nation often fear malpractice cases which can be both timely and costly, leading Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Rep. Tom Price, MD, (R-Ga.) to say tort reform ...

Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers estimate that U.S. orthopaedic surgeons create approximately $2 billion per year in unnecessary health care costs associated with orthopaedic care due ...

More than three-fourths of neurosurgeons practice some form of defensive medicine out of fear of malpractice lawsuits, according to an article in the February issue of Neurosurgery, the official ...

Georgia physicians are suffering from two ailments at the same time. On the one hand, they face the threat of frivolous malpractice lawsuits requiring them to practice defensive medicine. To protect ...

Behind most lawsuits against doctors lies a desire to correct past harm and deter future negligence. But malpractice litigation causes harm itself. This harm often persists long after a lawsuit is ...

What's the Difference Between 'Careful' Medicine and Defensive Medicine? Some years ago, the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment defined defensive medicine as: "When doctors order tests, ...